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Technology Stocks : Oracle Corporation (ORCL)
ORCL 178.08-5.6%3:53 PM EST

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To: syborg who wrote (8887)11/19/1998 12:34:00 AM
From: Michael Olin  Read Replies (1) of 19080
 
The connectivity is not going to be proprietary. The box will have an ethernet connection and will talk TCP/IP and Oracle Net8. If the database machine is running fine, why does it need to be updated for new hardware? I'll assume that there is a limited range of upgrades available: more disk, more RAM, maybe even more processors. Updates to the DB software get installed via the network. The box itself becomes a commodity. Most sites I deal with don't even bother upgrading hardware anymore. They buy new stuff (mostly for a faster processor) and move the memory and disks into the new machine. I see no reason why you couldn't do the same with a database machine.

-Michael
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